ASTER preflight and inflight calibration and the validation of level 2 products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1161-1172

  Thome, K ^a   Aral, K ^b   Hook, Simon ^c   Kieffer, H ^d   Lang, Harold ^e   Matsunaga, Tsuneo ^f   Ono, A ^f   Palluconi, F ^g   Sakuma, H ^h   Slater, P ⁱ   Takashima, T ^a   Tonooka, H ^a   Tsuchida, S ^b   Welch, Ronald M ^d   Zalewski, E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^h IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); Algorithm validation; Geometric calibration; Radiometric calibration; Vicarious calibration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 20244382528     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.701023     Document Type: Article

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